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Bastien-Lepage, Jules 1848-84
French painter

He was born in Damvillers, Meuse, Lorraine, and studied under the academic artist Alexandre Cabanel. His pictures are mostly of rustic scenes, such as Les Foins (The Hayfield, 1878, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), which influenced the Naturalist school throughout Europe and the USA, but he also painted portraits of Sarah Bernhardt and the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII).